What is "triggers"

Usage examples of "triggers".

The forces themselves would be living in field conditions, on hair triggers, in the Arabian desert--one of the hardest environments in the world in which to live.

And you cannot tell me that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs is going to share your enthusiasm for making Triggers as common as televisions.

And if the first mass-produced Triggers are built by TRW and installed in the White House basement, the Pentagon courtyard, Air Force One, and the Social Security Data Center, so what?

In a small miracle of military efficiency, 641 Tac BG had been created from scratch in just four months, and for only one purpose - to protect the myriad of Mark I Triggers wherever they might be placed.

T-teams and ops units, Triggers went to the Air Force for installation in Global Hawk battlefield intelligence drones, E-8D Joint STARS flying radar stations, and KC-10B Extender tankers - all unarmed aircraft crucial to the twenty-first-century concept of war.

SSTO orbiters with Triggers and order the commercial fleet to follow suit.

Most of those Triggers would be deployed cold, as insurance against the unpredictable vicissitudes of Third-World politics.

If you put enough Triggers at the choke points, you could get all the guns off the road.

Apart from the limited range, the real vulnerability of the Triggers is their susceptibility to EMP.

Industries, Terabyte Laboratories, Jeffrey Horton, and anyone else who had a hand in building the Triggers which are out there now.

If you wish to stand here and argue with us about whether or not these things qualify as the three triggers, I will put your doubts at ease.

The quarrel falls from its groove as the bow triggers harmlessly with a flat whack.

The four remaining Voltigeurs pulled their triggers, wanting only to retreat to the safety of the fortresses.

The Company pulled their triggers and the column jerked spasmodically away from the balls.